[Dovecot] linking problems of dovecot 2.0.3

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 21 13:51:48 EEST 2010


On 21.9.2010, at 1.46, Funda Wang wrote:

> But for shared libraries, if there are symbols defined in main program
> rather than library itself, that means libraries are only likely to
> work invoking the program,

Yes, that's how it was meant to be used.

> which is wrong. Because the library should
> be called by binary, rather the reverse.

I agree it's ugly, but I don't know about wrong :) Even after fixing this, the end result is anyway pretty much the same: The only use case for dovecot-login.so is to build a login binary.



More information about the dovecot mailing list